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### Step 13: Construct New Features from Existing Features

In this step, you use constructed features to create new features from existing features:

1. Select Insert | Feature | Constructed | Line to open the Construct Line dialog box.

2. With your pointer, click on CIR8 and CIR4 in the Graphic Display window. You can also select the circle features from the list box in the Construct Line dialog box. Once you select the circles, PC-DMIS highlights them.

Construct Line dialog box with CIR8 and CIR4 Selected

3. Select the Auto option.

4. Select the 2D Line option.

5. Click the Create button to construct LIN2 from the centroids of those two features. PC-DMIS uses the most effective construction method to create the line.

6. Now, create another 2D Line between CIR6 and CIR2 to create LIN3.

Construct Line dialog box with CIR6 and CIR2 Selected

7. Click Close to close the Construct Line dialog box.

The two lines (LIN2 and LIN3) and their feature IDs appear in the Graphic Display window and Edit window:

Constructed line in the Graphic Display window

For more information on how to construct features, see the "Constructing New Features from Existing Features" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

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